Virtual Village Feast celebrates, supports women working in Sacramento food and Ag
Registration is open for Oct. 9 farm-to-fork experience Here’s your chance to feast like a Dame – and support women who work in food and…
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The photo oracle: Sacramento’s Elle Jaye has an eye for capturing the music scene’s creative lightning
Pink hair, lenses and hugs are part of a rare approach the city’s musicians can’t get enough of By Casey Rafter It’s a beat frozen…
The battle of wine and fire: Inside the struggle to save El Dorado County’s acclaimed vineyards from Caldor
By Scott Thomas Anderson Randy Rossi throws some muscle against the gear-shifter of his Kubota ATV as it plows through broken powder on a mountain…
Where did all these yellow butterflies flooding Sacramento come from?
Orange Sulphurs invade city from Yolo County fields “Where did all these yellow butterflies come from?” That’s been a common question this week in Sacramento’s…
Guess who’ll get hit hardest by California’s severe water shortage?
Groundwater systems are key during California droughts, but certain communities are running dry – and there’s no real solution in sight By Sasha Abramsky, Capital…
Revisiting a groundbreaking novel from Nevada City’s great western writer
Oakley Hall’s ‘Warlock’ remains a towering achievement in California literature By Scott Thomas Anderson Writers, like cowboys, can find themselves penned-in. They get locked in…
Can science transform California crops to cope with drought?
By Julie Cart for CalMatters There’s a hive of PhDs at the University of California at Davis who are working to reinvent food production in…
Community Building
A local Sacramento architecture firm designs around neighborhood needs For the past 30 years, Sacramento-based Mogavero Architects has been building homes and uplifting communities throughout…
Sacramento-area favorite Antsy McClain wants to run for the burning hills
Southerner with one foot in the Sierra foothills copes with being cut-off from a cherished place By Casey Rafter The reek of smoke lingers in…
A force beyond fire is still killing the forests – illicit black market grows
Four years after California created a legal, regulated marijuana industry that’s largely shepherded by contentious growers, its public lands continue to be decimated by criminal…
Riding by the River: New book explores Sacramento’s long love affair with life on two wheels
Native daughter channels family history into the Capital’s broader legacy with motorcycles By Scott Thomas Anderson The late Italian motorcycle racer Marco Simoncelli once said,…
U.C. Davis study finds dams ineffective for conservation of salmon and trout in Sacramento-area waterways
By Dan Bacher For many years, federal, state and corporate proponents of building more dams in California have touted cold water river releases provided by increased water storage…
California attempts to rein in exploitation of truck drivers
Three bills would give trucking companies less incentive to misclassify full-time drivers as contractors. By Larry Buhl, Capital & Main This story is produced by…
The Forever Fires
More Sierra residents evacuate the Caldor Fire as others get the OK to return By Ken Magri For several decades, the Sierra Nevada mountain range…
Post-COVID Kitchen Confidential: Sacramento’s tough-willed cooks and pastry chefs soldier on through an upside down world
Worker shortages, supply chain chaos, constant rule changes, public fear, bad air and petty criminals – life is never boring for the indie kitchens making…
On the eve of would-be vaccination deadline for Sacramento employees, tensions rise enough to delay Mayor’s mandate
Tomorrow, Sept. 1, was supposed to be the official cut-off point for all City of Sacramento employees to be at least partially vaccinated – or…
While focusing on poverty and small biz fallout, Sacramento’s new ‘rescue plan’ makes a major investment in the arts
City Council on track to steer $10 million directly to the Capital’s creative economy as venues and artists try to recover By Scott Thomas Anderson…